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Learning Network Forum

Gender-Based Violence Work in Context:
Addressing Structural Violence and Promoting Agency

Date: October 8, 2019 l 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Location: Crystal Ballroom, Lamplighter Inn, 591 Wellington Rd, London, ON

The Learning Network values diverse ways of knowing and brings together the voices of researchers, community justice activists, people with lived experience, and front-line service providers.

Presenters in this Learning Network Forum addressed both personal and structural aspects of gender-based violence work in a range of contexts, including working to protect children, covering gendered news stories, developing and using online platforms, and administering justice.

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Learning Objectives

Participants at this Forum are now better able to:

• Describe structural violence and its implications for gender-based violence work
• Delineate how institutional racism and oppression amplifies experiences of abuse and compounds marginalization
• Understand how various systems (e.g. child welfare, justice), policies, and media can constrain and/or empower individuals and communities
• Identify pathways to allyship, agency, and systemic reform

Speakers and Working Presentation Titles

Speakers		Working Presentation Titles
	Julie Baumann, SafeSpace London Co-Founder and Community Coordinator	The Policing of Sex Work in London, Ontario: Instruments of Surveillance and Moments of Resistance
	Tamara Bernard, Researcher for ONWA, PhD Candidate at Lakehead University	Creating Safe Spaces for Indigenous Women in Canada
	Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD, Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto	Promoting Collective Action among Migrant Communities to Address the Structural Violence of Precarious Status and Precarious Work
	Dillon Black, Project Coordinator at Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW)	Transparency is Power: Gendered Violence, Technology & Surveillance
	Elisha Corbett, PhD Candidate at Queen's University in Political Studies and a former Senior Researcher with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls	Media Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Creating, Maintaining, and Silencing the Violence
	Olson Crow, Community Organizer and Activist	The Politics of Privatized Care: The Importance of Child Welfare Reform
	Jodi Hall, Professor and Research Consultant at School of Nursing and Centre for Research and Innovation, Fanshawe College; Assistant Adjunct Professor at Arthur Labatt Family, School of Nursing, Western University	The Policing of Sex Work in London, Ontario: Instruments of Surveillance and Moments of Resistance
	Kalimah Johnson, Founder and Executive Director of SASHA Center	Unpacking the SASHA Model: The “Black Women's Triangulation of Rape" and Why an Abandoned Warehouse in Detroit is JUST NOT BIG ENOUGH
	leZlie lee kam, queer DYKE community activist	Living and Breathing Intersectionality
	Myrna Kicknosway, Visiting Elder, Western University	Traditional Opening and Closing Ceremonies
	Marlihan Lopez, Co-Vice-President for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and Undergraduate Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality Program at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute	Mothering at the Intersections of Disability and Race: How Being a Single Parent to a Neurodivergent Child Changed My Work as a Community Organizer
	Patricia McGuire, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University	Creating Safe Spaces for Indigenous Women in Canada
	Janet Mosher, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Director of Clinical Legal Education at Osgoode	Mapping Law's Role in Gender-Based Structural Violence
	Jade Peek, Director of Community Care & Advocacy, Kind Space	Solutions through Intersectional Methodologies

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Accessibility

The Learning Network Forum welcomes everyone, including people with accessibility needs.  Please contact us at vawln@uwo.ca for any specific questions and suggestions. 

• ASL interpretation available upon request up to a week before the event (Tuesday, October 1)
• Quiet space to speak with Elder provided
• Gender-neutral bathroom available
• Main floor washroom accessible 
• Four accessible parking spaces beside doors  
• Free parking with 450 spaces
• Portable accessible items available to hotel room guests upon request
• Registration name-tags with option to include pronouns 
• Vegan lunch option will be made available, please inform us of other dietary restrictions at vawln@uwo.ca
• Presenters will have microphones and microphones will be spaced throughout the room for question and answer discussions 

Please note: Some individuals have informed us of their scent sensitives. To respect their health needs, avoid artificially scented products such as perfume, cologne, aftershave, deodorant, body lotion, shampoo, and fabric softener.